Tuesday, April 8, 2014

715

Move over Babe
Hank 's hit another
He'll break that 714
--Bill Slayback

Forty years ago I sat in front of our first gen color TV and watched my favorite baseball player, Hank Aaron, break Babe Ruth's home run record. Aaron had tied the record four days earlier in Cincinnati on Opening Day.



The replay today looks exactly the same. Downing's 1-0 pitch. The classic, almost magical, Aaron swing. Buckner climbing the fence in left. Tom House catching the ball on the fly in the Brave's bullpen.


Some memories get better with age. Others stay the same, because they're already the best.

2 comments:

dgeorge12358 said...

It's probably the most hallowed record out there, as far as I'm concerned, but it's now in the hands of somebody else.
~Hank Aaron

dgeorge12358 said...

Adam Dunn (442) only 10 away from Yaz
Pujols (492) only one away from Gehring